• An anti-government protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
    An anti-government protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
  • A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against alleged government corruption, in Beirut. Hussein Malla / AP Photo
    A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against alleged government corruption, in Beirut. Hussein Malla / AP Photo
  • Palestinian social activists working for the International South Cooperation (Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud, or CISS) entertain children who are cancer patients, while dressed as clowns inside a hospital in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
    Palestinian social activists working for the International South Cooperation (Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud, or CISS) entertain children who are cancer patients, while dressed as clowns inside a hospital in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
  • Pakistani protesters burn a representation of the Indian flag, to condemn Indian shelling at Pakistani villages, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mohammad Sajjad / AP Photo
    Pakistani protesters burn a representation of the Indian flag, to condemn Indian shelling at Pakistani villages, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mohammad Sajjad / AP Photo
  • Libyan Red Crescent workers carry the body of a drowned migrant who washed up along with several others in Zuwara, Libya. Mohamed Ben Khalifa / AP Photo
    Libyan Red Crescent workers carry the body of a drowned migrant who washed up along with several others in Zuwara, Libya. Mohamed Ben Khalifa / AP Photo
  • Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (C), and Baher Mohamed (top left), talk to the media with lawyer Amal Clooney (2nd R) and Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Troy Lulashnyk (R), before the journalists verdict at a court in Cairo, Egypt. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters
    Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (C), and Baher Mohamed (top left), talk to the media with lawyer Amal Clooney (2nd R) and Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Troy Lulashnyk (R), before the journalists verdict at a court in Cairo, Egypt. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters
  • Israeli border police detain a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes between Israeli border police and Palestinian demonstrators at a protest near the West bank city of Biet Jala. Abed Al Hashlamoni / EPA
    Israeli border police detain a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes between Israeli border police and Palestinian demonstrators at a protest near the West bank city of Biet Jala. Abed Al Hashlamoni / EPA
  • Iraqi Raeed Jamal, 23, uses a spray gun to custom paint a guitar at his workshop in the upmarket Mansur district of Baghdad. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP
    Iraqi Raeed Jamal, 23, uses a spray gun to custom paint a guitar at his workshop in the upmarket Mansur district of Baghdad. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP
  • A boy sits next to an unusable car in the northwestern province of Amran, Yemen. Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
    A boy sits next to an unusable car in the northwestern province of Amran, Yemen. Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
  • A protester flashes victory signs during a demonstration in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Bilal Hussein / AP Photo
    A protester flashes victory signs during a demonstration in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Bilal Hussein / AP Photo

Region in focus: September 2, 2015


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A selection of the best images from around the Gulf and across the Middle East this past week.